Megrahi

[wendilla]

Just watching police escort for Magrahi. Why don't they just chuck him out the door and let him take his chances and find his own way to the airport. I saw what happened at Lockerbie.End of rant no point in saying anymore.Hope someone shoots him and he suffers a long and lingering death.

[Everhelpful]

By,There certainly are some do-gooders on these pages!!

[Everhelpful]

P.S. If it had been one of their Family killed would they still be do-gooders? Thought not!!

[wendilla]

It doesn't matter what you say he should not have been released .Even the US are against him being released and it was mostly their people that were killed.I hope he can live with himself for what he did . You all have your own ideas of what happened and I will stick to mine which is not very difficult. Guilty.

[Sqad]

wendilla...no! no!..SOME of the U.S are against his release.......not all.....far from it including some of the families who lost their loved ones.

[caththecrazy]

I certainly think he was innocent and I did listen to Dr Jim Swire yesterday on the radio.

After losing his daughter he still thinks this is the right decision - he regrets that one of the conditions was the appeal was dropped.... and as he says the real perpetrators will not be found now.

This was a sham from the beginning of the trial and the expert witnesses don't appear to have been so expert before.

How many dishonourale people won't lie if they are offered vasts sums ?

God help us if we can't show someone some compassion

[flipnflap]

The US and USA asked Libya not to celebrate Megrahi's release, yet a cheering crowd of thousands turned out to greet him. Libya can't believe their luck that this absurd decision has been made. Our so-called justice system is a joke and it has made Britain a laughing-stock. Even if this convicted mass-murderer is dying - and I seriously doubt it regardless of seeing how easily he climbed the steps of that plane (I'm sure at one point he slowed down realising he wasn't acting ill enough) - we'll never know if he actually dies. Libya can claim any corpse to be his.

[BertiWooster]

wendilla

Have you got family / relatives that were affected by the Lockerbie bombing ?

[andy-hughes]

I have argued my belief against 'compassion' on another thread, but it bears re-stating here.

If an innocent man has been imprisoned, the the Appeals Process should be allowed to run its course, and hopefully expose any duplicity at national and international level.

The case for 'compassion's is entirely spurious. I did listen to the Justice Minister's speech, and he stated that Mr Magrahi was being allowed " ... to go home ...TO DIE" as though this is not in any way a release from prison, because he has a limited time to live.

We are all going to die - at what point is a line drawn to decide that someone 'deserves' to die at home, and not in prison, as in this case, and that of Ronnie Biggs?

The easiest way is to leave compassion out of the judicial process - it clouds legal judgement and objective decisions with sentiment, and it cannot be fair. Sincew no-one is ever likely to be conviceted for such a large number of murders ever again, surely any prisoner who is ill to what ever degree, deserves the same 'compassion' under the same argument?

That is why this decision was fundamentally wrong. The Arab extremists will taunt the West for being weak and foolish ... with good reason.

[shiznit]

Well said Andy, we are too soft in this country, and it will be our downfall.

[Gromit]

The people who were responsible for the Lockerbie bomb are still free and they have, in effect, got away with mass murder.

But an innocent man has gone to prison for it so the families of the victims can feel pleased,